Quotes about: change

Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.
– W. Averell Harriman
Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.
– J. Paul Getty
Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.
– Friedrich Durrenmatt
RFK was a compelling figure because he was willing to challenge his audiences, and in turn connect with them in a unique way. Kennedy showed that our values define us and can inspire others to believe in the possibility of change and a better society.
– Frances O'Grady
Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.
– Yoko Ono
Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
– Ice T
Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.
– Malcolm Fraser
Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future.
– Gary Ross
Real change isn't found in some new way to think about yourself, but in freedom from the need to think about yourself at all.
– Guy Finley
Rather than saying, 'My checking account is a wreck,' change it to 'I will learn how to track my spending and balance my checkbook.'
– Suze Orman
Public discourse has been polluted now for decades by corporate-funded disinformation - not just with climate change but with a host of health, environmental and societal threats. The implications for the planet are grim.
– Michael E. Mann
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
– George Bernard Shaw
Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.
– Margaret J. Wheatley
Prior to passage of Obamacare, Americans spoke out against the individual mandate they didn't want to change the health care they had they didn't want a 3,000-page bill that empowered 15 Washington bureaucrats to decide the future of the doctor-patient relationship.
– Fred Upton
Pretty soon we'll have robots in our society, you're going to have a lot of automated processes that used to be done by people - this is happening. Society and technology is changing so fast, and the impact of the change on society and technology is global, not local.
– Jose Padilha
President Obama's version of America is a divided one - pitting us against each other based on our income level, gender, and social status. His policies have failed! We are not better off than we were 4 years ago, and no rhetoric, bumper sticker, or campaign ad can change that.
– Mia Love
President Obama's 100-day plan is pretty impressive. I think it's a Wow 100-plus days. The administration is not operating from fear, it is trying to drive change for the future, and that's a good thing.
– Andrea Jung
President Obama chose politics over leadership. 'Hope' and 'Change' have become bait-and-switch.
– Lindsey Graham
Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.
– John Podhoretz
Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.
– Kate Millett
Political Correctness doesn't change us, it shuts us up.
– Glenn Beck
Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.
– John C. Maxwell
Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change.
– Walter Isaacson
Poetry is not only dream and vision it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
– Audre Lorde
Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen.
– Jeff Cooper
Personal law is simply the thought that controls your mind and your life more than any other thought. Finding that thought is the most valuable knowledge that you can have about yourself. It is like the leverage on personal change. It enables you to change very efficiently.
– Leonard Orr
People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.
– Laura Linney
People with high blood pressure, diabetes - those are conditions brought about by life style. If you change the life style, those conditions will leave.
– Dick Gregory
People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.
– Eleanor Clift
People naturally change a lot during their 20s, so my songs reflect that progression.
– Miranda Lambert
People lose people, we lose things in our life as we're constantly growing and changing. That's what life is is change, and a lot of that is loss. It's what you gain from that loss that makes life.
– Thomas Jane
People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.
– Albert Ellis
People find themselves in ruts all the time. You're in a complacent lifestyle where you work 9 to 5 and then you add a mortgage and kids. You feel trapped, but guess what, brother? You constructed that life. If you're OK with it, there's nothing wrong with that. But if you've got unease, then you've got to make a change.
– Jeremy Renner
People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided by the EU. That needs to change.
– William Hague
People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.
– Sharon Stone
People change over the years, and that changes situations for good and for bad.
– Bobby Knight
People can try to reinvent themselves. I don't think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you've done up to now.
– Eminem
People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.
– Keith Henson
People are starting to go on about my weight but I'm not going to change my size because they don't like the way I look.
– Adele Brookman
People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.
– Temple Grandin
People always ask me if I could live in any other era what would it be, and I tell them none! I feel so lucky to live in an age where technology has changed and continues to change and make life so much more exciting. It keeps everyone young and constantly learning new things.
– Nina Garcia
Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.
– Barbara Deming
Our nation is being led astray by ungodly judges, mayors and governors, who are given to change, defying the Constitution and substituting their own wicked agendas.
– David Wilkerson
Our institute's agenda is relatively simple. We study the relationship between social-economic change and culture. By culture we mean beliefs, values and lifestyles. We cover a broad range of issues, and we work very internationally.
– Peter L. Berger
Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth's treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply.
– Vivienne Westwood
Organisations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed and external changes over which no one has control.
– Margaret J. Wheatley
Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.
– Thomas Friedman
Only the change on the international scene, the crisis in the gulf, and the strong, firm position of the United States against aggression between two Arab countries created realities that led to the Madrid Peace Conference.
– Yitzhak Rabin
Only idiots refuse to change their minds.
– Brigitte Bardot
Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.
– Billy Graham
One-third of Americans have already been forced to change their lifestyle because their disposable income is gone. A guy can't go to the corner bar after a rough day at work to have a beer, that's gone to oil!
– Terry McAuliffe
One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives.
– Hugh Mackay
One of the things I've always personally tried to stress with this band was to have some kind of visual aspect and to be consistent with it - like, not to change.
– Peter Steele
One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong.
– Dean Koontz
One of the things I like best about 'Biggest Loser' is being around people who are trying to make the right choices. When you feel defeated about your weight and your health, like there's no hope, and you still make the choice to fight for it, to make the change happen no matter what people say or think, that's inspiring to me.
– Alison Sweeney
One of the most predictable things in life is there will be change. You are better off if you can have a say in the change. But you are ignorant or naive if you don't think there will be change, whether you want it to or not.
– Julius Erving
One of the most important things that I did to turn my life around was to realize and to accept that from this minute, that's all we have. Everything that happened behind us we cannot change so you might as well look to the future.
– Nick Carter
One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.
– Don Marquis
One of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put a frog in a pot and slowly turn up the heat, it won't jump out. Instead, it will enjoy the nice warm bath until it is cooked to death. We humans seem to be doing pretty much the same thing.
– Jeff Goodell
One of the advantages of moving quickly is if you do something wrong you can change it. What technologies tend to do is they tend to make a lot of mistakes... but then we go back and aggressively attack those mistakes - and fix them. And you usually recover pretty quickly.
– Marc Andreessen
One new feature or fresh take can change everything.
– Neil Young
One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.
– Daniel Berrigan
One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.
– Philip Wylie
On the political front, of course it's a zero-sum game. If it's all white males holding positions, you bring 10 women in, then it's, 'Women are coming!' Get 10 blacks and it's, 'Blacks are coming!' 'Hispanics are coming!' Zero-sum game. The seatmates might change but the chairs don't move. In the economy, the number of chairs can actually increase.
– Jesse Jackson
On some campuses, change is effected through nonviolent or even violent means.
– Hillary Clinton
Often times when you face such an overwhelming challenge as global climate change, it can be somewhat daunting - it's kind of like trying to lose weight, which I know something about.
– Hillary Clinton
Of course, there is no question that Libya - and the world - will be better off with Gaddafi out of power. I, along with many other world leaders, have embraced that goal, and will actively pursue it through non-military means. But broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake.
– Barack Obama
Obviously comedic styles do change.
– Larry David
Obama won the presidency on the strength of his message and the skills of the messenger. Now the talk of hope and change feels out of tune when so many Americans are out of work, over-mortgaged, and worried that life will be even tougher for their children.
– Ron Fournier
Obama has no power to change American policy because there are people who specialize in drawing these policies, which have been and still are hostile towards Islam.
– Muqtada al Sadr
Now we're in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change - we're doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change - inch by inch, day by day.
– Barack Obama
Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.
– Laurence Sterne
Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.
– Tom Clancy
Nothing endures but change.
– Heraclitus
Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.
– Kenneth L. Pike
No, nothing has changed in my life at all, and nothing would change if I had millions.
– Kinky Friedman
No, it's interesting to remake a film for the contemporary audience today. I think it's a good idea it needs to respect the original idea. Don't just take the title and change everything else.
– Dario Argento
No, I don't regret anything at this point. That may change on the next phone call, but at the moment I don't regret anything.
– William Shatner
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
– Steve Jobs
No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
– Robin Williams
No matter how many modern parts I do, people still refer to me as Mrs. Costume Drama. Fight Club is a studio pic, and I've done very few of those. I've got a feeling it's going to change things for me.
– Helena Bonham Carter
No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.
– Milan Kundera
No foreigner has a place asking another people, another country, to change their constitution.
– Hamid Karzai
News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.
– Friedrich Durrenmatt
Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.
– Vaclav Klaus
Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.
– Alan Alda
Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.
– Langston Hughes
My whole thing is just to put out positive messages in the music, give people something that can change their lives.
– Kid Cudi
My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind.
– Martha Beck
My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives.
– Harvey Fierstein
My particular aesthetic of light and color and design wouldn't change as a result of working with computer graphics rather than with slit scan or miniatures.
– Douglas Trumbull
My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.
– Warren Beatty
My mom's discipline worked out perfectly. I wouldn't change a thing.
– will.i.am
My mom was always saying: 'Be whatever you want to be, but stick with it. Don't waver. Don't change who you are for anybody.'
– Miranda Lambert
My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see.
– Muhammad Yunus
My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don't care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being just a company means to me is not being just that - building something that actually makes a really big change in the world.
– Mark Zuckerberg
My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.
– Jack Layton
My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete.
– T-Pain
My diminished girth, in tailor phraseology, was hardly conceivable even by my own friends, or my respected medical adviser, until I put on my former clothing, over what I now wear, which is a thoroughly convincing proof of the remarkable change.
– William Banting
My dad's one of my biggest heroes. I also think Paul Newman's an inspiration. I know a lot of people say that, but I love that he's a great role model and a humanitarian. I admire people who don't necessarily want to change the world, but try to make it a better environment.
– Alex Pettyfer